YlangYlang

YlangYlang has been creating restless ambient music since 2012. Originally a solo project by Montréal-based musician Catherine Debard, it slowly entangled itself throughout the years with a wide array of collaborators, taking various forms. This current iteration includes longtime collaborators Connor Bennett (saxophone & electronics) and Olivier Dumont (flute). Throughout the years, they released records internationally on labels such as Crash Symbols (United States), Phinery (Denmark), and ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ (Russia). They toured extensively across Canada and performed at international music festivals such as Mutek, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Electric Eclectics, and Strangewaves. In 2019, Debard participated in the Red Bull Music Academy at the National Music Centre in Calgary. She has collaborated with several artists from different disciplines, including Olivia Faye Lathuillère (performance), Andrea Young (hypnosis), Ariane Dessaulles (dance), and Sonya Stefan (video). More recently, as part of Mue (a duo with musician Léon Lo), she took part in two collaborations with visual artist Katherine Melançon: A Discard Studies, a performance presented at MTelus for Mutek Montréal, and To Soften Our Fall, the soundtrack for a series of videos presented at Sonolux as part of Seeds of r/evolution, an exhibition by Cheryl Sim (PHI). Since 2020, Debard and Lo have hosted a monthly show dedicated to experimental music, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, broadcasted on n10.as.

Photo credit : Léon Lo